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Utah Headlines

Political news

• As SCOTUS weighs restricting abortion medication mifepristone, here’s how Utah is involved (Salt Lake Tribune)

Election news

• GOP candidates hustle to get on primary ballot for Curtis’ open House seat (Deseret News)
  
• Wilson’s Senate campaign disclosures show how closely development and government can align (KUER)

Utah news

• Utah Muslims mark their holiest month: ‘During Ramadan, our spirituality is heightened’ (KSL)
• Natalie Randall and Ryan Starks: Utah’s tourism ripple effect (Deseret News)
• John Stockton wants you to leave him alone (Deseret News)
• Plane en route to Amsterdam from Salt Lake forced to turn around after losing engine cover (KUTV)
• Price woman with severe disability who was raped by stepfather dies (KUTV)
• Team helping sexual assault victims in need of supplies (Daily Herald)

Crime/Court

• How scammers are using counterfeit obituaries to profit off deaths of loved ones (KSL TV)
• Man charged with six counts of attempted murder for ‘targeting’ female pedestrians with his car (KSL TV)
• Ruby Franke case: Jailhouse calls show how Franke turned against Hildebrandt, as both women blamed ‘the devil’ for their arrests (Salt Lake Tribune)
• ‘I will not feed a demon’: YouTuber Ruby Franke’s child abuse case rooted in religious extremism (KUER)
• Utah woman accused of poisoning husband with fentanyl faces additional charges (KUTV)

Culture

• The landmark Kirtland Temple reopens for public tours: See the first photos (Deseret News)

Education

• False dichotomies, paired aspirations and ‘becoming BYU’ (Deseret News)
• Utah students could soon earn bachelor's degree in 3 years (KSL)
• Anonymous donation sends Utah junior high robotics team to world championship (KSL)
• Opinion: Utah is jeopardizing public education funding. As educators, we need your help. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Environment

• Wetlands are disappearing quickly across the United States (Deseret News)

Family

• My mother was the keeper of our memories. Then she got dementia. (Wall Street Journal)

Health

• Measles cases already surpass 2023 numbers, CDC reports (Deseret News)
• Doctors looking into why Utah has one of highest multiple sclerosis rates in nation (KSL)
• Utah ranks second in the nation for prescription medication shortages (KSL Newsradio)

Housing

• Walkable, bikeable and less lonely: Are planned communities the cure? (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Utah hopes a $300M incentive will jumpstart starter homes. But would zoning work better? (KUER)

National Headlines

General

• Trump’s social media company starts trading on Nasdaq with a market value of almost $6.8 billion (AP)
• Homes linked to Sean 'Diddy' Combs raided by law enforcement (NPR)
• Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani: ‘I never bet on baseball or any other sport’ (The Athletic)

Political news

• Valerie Hudson: Should states have power outside their own borders?
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• Why some conservatives are upset about an ‘extreme risk’ gun safety collaboration (Deseret News)
• Former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel faces fierce pushback for NBC hire (Deseret News)
• ‘Duty to warn’ guided US advance warning of the Moscow attack. Adversaries don’t always listen (AP)
• Full-scale revolt: MSNBC personalities object to NBC News’ hiring of Ronna McDaniel as a contributor (AP)
• Why the tables turned, leaving conservatives as loser in spending fight (The Hill)
• NY Republican says House could ‘end up having a Speaker Hakeem Jeffries’ as GOP majority narrows (The Hill)

Election news

• Robert F. Kennedy Jr to name vice presidential pick today for 2024 US election bid (Reuters)
• Trump reels from competing court decisions as trials disrupt campaign (Washington Post)
• Trump seethes after New York trial set for April 15 (The Hill)
• Biden gains on Trump in six battleground states in new poll (The Hill)

Supreme Court

• Mifepristone access is coming before the US Supreme Court. How safe is this abortion pill? (AP)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

•  How drone combat in Ukraine is changing warfare (Reuters)
• ‘Give us the damn Patriots’ — Ukraine needs air defenses now, minister says (Politico)

Israel and Gaza

• Dozens killed in Israeli strikes on north and south of Gaza (Reuters)
• UN demand for Gaza cease-fire provokes strongest clash between US and Israel since war began (AP)

World

• Russian court extends WSJ reporter's detention (Wall Street Journal)
• Beatings and calls for execution follow Russian concert attack (Wall Street Journal)

Number of the Day 

News Releases

Gov. Cox appoints Jerry Fenn as Public Service Commission member 

Gov. Spencer Cox has named Jerry Fenn as a member of the Utah Public Service Commission. Appointments to the PSC are subject to approval by the Utah Senate. 

Fenn has more than 20 years of experience. He has worked as the president of Qwest Communications Utah and the regional vice president for CenturyLink. He is currently self-employed as an attorney and consultant as well as an adjunct professor at Brigham Young University teaching managerial ethics. (Read More)

Tweet of the Day

Upcoming

• April 10 — Utah Valley Chamber Pillar of the Valley recognizing Gail Miller, 7:00-9:00 pm, Register here
• April 18 — Utahns’ Perceptions of the Challenges Facing Women and Girls, 12:00-1:15 pm, Register here
• April 20 — United Utah Partyconvention
• April 27 — State GOP and Democratic Conventions

On This Day In History 

• 1830 - The Book of Mormon was first offered for sale in E. B. Grandin's bookstore in Palmyra, New York.
• 1910 - US forbids immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers and the sick
• 1926 - Sandra Day O’Connor is born. She became the first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
• 1940 - Nancy Pelosi is born.
• 1945 - Fighting on Iwo Jima ends, island declared secure
• 1953 - Dr. Jonas Salk announces the polio vaccine. The previous year, there were 58,000 new cases in the US alone.
• 1979 - Israel-Egypt peace agreement signed

Quote of the Day

"Incredibly upsetting for all of us...And so when you are (exposed to it), it's like, you have people say, 'Man, I can't believe that happened.' But racism is real and it happens, and it's awful."

—Utah women's basketball team head coach Lynne Roberts

On the Punny Side

I had a happy childhood. My dad used to put me in tires and roll me down hills.

Those were Goodyears.

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